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Welcome to the home of the Quinolone Vigilance Foundation (QVF), a non-profit, charitable foundation that funds research on fluoroquinolone toxicity and helps raise awareness about their dangers among patients and medical professionals.

Fluoroquinolones are one of the most commonly prescribed classes of antibiotics. They are very powerful medications often wrongly given as a first line of defense against a wide variety of routine infections.

For some, reactions to fluoroquinolones can occur from as little as one pill. For others, reactions can occur weeks, months, or even longer after taking the drugs. Often, patients and even medical professionals do not suspect that these antibiotics could be the cause, as symptoms can often mimic other medical conditions.

Approximately half of the fluoroquinolones that were once on the market have now been removed from clinical practice due to their severe toxicities. Although warnings and cautionary information exist, doctors continue to prescribe this class of antibiotics for infections they were never intended to treat. As a result, many patients continue to unnecessarily suffer devastating disabilities.

QVF believes that every fluoroquinolone prescription should be accompanied by full disclose of the risk for lifelong disability so that patients can make informed choices. To ensure that this information reaches patients, the FDA should add additional warnings to the drug packaging and finally require that a Dear Doctor letter go out to every physician in the United States, warning them of the risks to their patients.

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Update: Quinolone Vigilance Foundation is proud to announce that the petition calling on FDA to finalize its proposed rule to close the generic drug safety loophole has received over 23,000 signatures and it was […]